A Christmas Carol
by Jennifer Adams · first published 2012
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Learn a variety of colors through things associated with Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol.
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…other classic works. A good teacher assigns works which lie just outside of the pupil's comfort zone, but not so far out there as to make reading a chore. Want to assign Dickens? Go ahead and read the Christmas Carol at this time of year; it's short and not too hard to grasp, and with enough hooks to go into Victorian society and other related topics. But assign David Copperfield? Great book, but for teenagers way…
on “Mutual Friends: The Adventures of Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins” ↗…(Dick) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Adams) Dracula (Stoker) To Kill a Mockingbird (Lee) The Count of Monte Cristo (Dumas) Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare) The Wind in the Willows (Grahame) A Christmas Carol (Dickens) Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass (Carroll) Watership Down (Adams) Gulliver's Travels (Swift) Animal Farm (Orwell)
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